(Critical thinking and Technology)
Promoting critical thinking through technology
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for this week share interesting information about “Critical thinking and technology." That made me want to read
more about it because we can use technology as a tool to reach goal in
education, or we can use it to directly stimulate student to think critically
and solve problems. Also, it can be used to permit increase motivation in the
classroom and improves students' learning process. As a result, students’
attitudes and perceptions about learning, it can influence how much and how
well students learn the new information. When, educators help students develop
competencies such as collaboration and communication it gives way to creating
new knowledge. Furthermore, using active teaching and the critical thinking
development technology contributes to generation of students’ general cultural
and pedagogical competencies developing their cognitive ability, motivation development,
and formation of their skills or abilities. Finally, technology covers the
application of acquired knowledge to real-life situations, to put into practice
what has been learned. In conclusion, technology allows to expanding knowledge
with the search of other sources of information. It means that by applying
technological tools to promote critical thinking contributes to the
assimilation of the topic and increase the effectiveness of show their learning
experiences.
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Hi Nicole. I like your reflection and I agree with the idea that technology directly stimulate student to think critically and solve problems. We all know that that every student has his own way of thinking and learning, and we as teachers have to be competent facilitors. This reminds me that practice makes perfect and In critical thinking as in many other areas, lots of practice is needed before facility can be achieved. And facility is necessary before people will persist with critical thinking despite the fact that it’s hard and not really in our natures. We are not used to think critically that is why it is kind of complicated to get the student thinking in that way but it will be our job as future teachers.
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